Macworld 2007 keynote speech

9:05 It is 8:59 pacific time and I’ve just been let into “the room” where “Steve” will be. This is a test to see if I can post. As I seem able to gain access via my phone’s evdo, I’ll continue to post here. It will be in chronological order (I will add the lastest to the bottom).

9:18 Over half of new Macs sold to “switchers.” Shows a new commercial – Vista switching. “If I don’t come back, you can have my perepherals.” This is all we’re going to talk about the Mac.

9:17 Now we’re going to talk about the music business. iPod nano is the worlds more popooular MP3 player. iTunes: Sold over 2 billion songs. (applause) There was a report that sales were slowing, “Don’t know where they got their data. Ours shows sales doubled last year. Over 5 million songs a day. 58 songs a second. Now, “we are the fourth in music sales” (behind Walmart Best Buy and Target — passed Amazon.

9:30 Introduces Apple TV (formerly known as code name iTV) “A way to enjoy your media on your big TV.” You can buy great content on iTunes store and download it to your computer — I’m going to use a Mac. You can purchase and big screen TV and wirelessly connect your computer to your big TV. (Shows graphic of the back of) (lots of specs that will be available anywhere are spouted off to applause).

Can auto synch from one computer. (i.e., queue up most recent downloads)

But these are not three separate devices. And we’re calling it iPhone…and here it is…

“We are going to reinvent the phone”

“Revolutionary UI:” Why? (shows 4 smart phone — what’s wrong with them. It’s the keyboards that are fixed in plastic and there even when you don’t need them. You can’t add buttons later. The buttons and the conttrols can’t change, now or down the road. How do you solve that. We solved it in comoputers 20 years ago — bitmap screen and pointing device. How are we going to take it too mobile device: Just make a giant screen.

Giant screen

No sylist: Uses finger. “Multi-touch” works like magic. More accurate than any touch screen. Can do multifinger jestures. And, boy have we patented it.

Demos Safari running on the iPhone — not a WAP or mobile version – uses a “double tap” on any content and it screens up” — (Editorial Note: you will want to see this Demo’d quickly — it will change the way you perceive small-screen surfing). He demos using NY Times and Amazon. (Ed. Note: Again, this is hard to explain. You’ll have to see for yourself.)

(Editorial note: Second mention of Apple Board member and Nashvillian Al Gore.)

“If you’ve ever used a “web browser” you’ll know how radical this is, he says.

Demos widgets: They look exactly like on dashboard, but fill the screen

Demos google maps on iPone. Full screen, overlays a keypad, searches for “Starbucks” and immediately, points appear all over the map. He then calls the Starbucks — and pranks them: “I’d like to order 4,000 lattest to go…sorry, wrong number.” Uses the “pinch” to navigate google maps. (Ed. Note: Those who use google maps on Treo or other mobile device will recognize the tricks he’s doing — however, it’s still cool with the pinching and double tapping.) “That’s the colleseum,” he marvels. “That’s the colleseum.” “Right on.”

It’s the internet in you pocket.

Dr. Eric Schmidt , CEO of Google, walks on (following is NOT verbatim, but my notes: “Congratualtions, Steve. An incredible job. I’ve had a privilege of joining Apple board. “What I like about this device is you can “merge without merging.” Each company should do what they do the best. Internet architecture allow you to take braintrust of Apple and those at Google and put into a seamless way for users. At Google, we’ve tried to partner with other companies and working with other data services. This is a set of data so you can really get the full integration. It comes together seamlessly. This is the first of a whole generation of “cloud” computers (Google) that devices like IPhone can take advantage of.”

Jerry Yang, founder and Chief Yahoo: (following is NOT verbatim) “I’m not an Apple board member but would love one of these. Mail is a killer app and Yahoo is trying to reinvent email on mobile devices. It’s like having a blackberry without the exchange server. We want to take what Apple’s doing on the phone device and recreate the web experience/services also.

He demos the whole she-bang thing. (Ed note: He is truly the master of CEO demoing — he knows the product and is so well rehearsed he uses power functions I doubt anyone will ever do – simultaneously, at least, and in front of 4,000 people and a global audience.)

He introduces Stan Sigman (of Cingular/ATT) who demonstats how truly bad a CEO can blow a presentation by pulling out 4 x5 cards and reading the worst canned speech of all time — whoever at Cingular let this guy on the stage should be fired.

Steve: “We come from different worlds.” (No kidding.)

Steve then has a technical problem. His “clicker” won’t work. He vamps by telling a Steve Wozniak story the audience loves. Someone backstage takes over.

Steve announces they are droping the “Computer” from the Apple Computer corporate name.

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